It's been a long ten weeks for me, stuck inside for the most part wondering when I'd be able to explore again. The government briefings made it clear that from June 1st, the first measures towards an easing of the lockdown would be put in place and it was June that I targeted for my return to exploring, having not done anything since late March - the longest I've ever gone without in my almost eleven years of exploring. The attitude here in the UK has been really divided, with many 'old timers' holding off, respecting the 'stay at home unless absolutely necessary' messages whilst the awful virus was at it's worst because exploring was not an essential activity, and ending up in hospital thanks to an injury sustained whilst out and about was simply not a risk I or any of the similarly minded people were willing to take. Equally though, there were a large amount of people - mostly the sort of 'social media explorers' who were out and about without a care in the world, causing dramas and issues as is the norm whilst others watched on in horror at their careless antics.

Personally for me exploring at the moment is now all about relative risks, for the next little while I'm making sure the areas I'm exploring are pretty remote, so as to limit my potential encounters with others to a greater extent - the only people I ended up really seeing at close quarters yesterday other than my friend were petrol station workers and when I bought my breakfast from a takeaway food van. If the government deems it necessary to reintroduce a stricter lockdown to avoid a major rise in infection rates it will of course be something I adhere to as I was doing before, which will be frustrating but necessary. Until that happens though I'm going to attempt to explore as much as I am able to.

This house was on my list to explore, a tip from a friend of mine recently. The house itself was nothing special, very old, falling apart and largely empty however the thing which made me want to see it was the large American motor home parked next to it. The Fleetwood Pace Arrow was certainly a bizarre thing to see nestled next to a house tucked down a narrow single lane road in a tiny hamlet of no more than a few scattered houses. The property had numerous outbuildings which seemed to have a lot of newer contents stored inside them, as well as a Ford Transit van and another caravan so the last owners must have been planning to do up the house whilst living in the RV - it was last on the road in 2009 which gives a rough date of abandonment of the property as a whole however the house has obviously been empty a lot longer than that.

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Thanks for looking

It looks like those RVs are dirty inside but it didn't look like there was any holes or broken windows. Did they smell bad, like water had gotten in, or were they just dirty due to whoever was last living in them last? Just curious.

Excellent set man, it's funny seeing toys with the driver on the "wrong" side LOL

Rad. That RV brings back childhood memories. You'd be surprised how well one of those things can do off-road.

What a nice location, I love the exposed interior brick walls in #5 and #6.

Fantastic pictures. Love those RV's.

I need a place like that, going through a dry spell.

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I would love to light paint something like that. The style is definitely not something you see very often in the American south, so I find this home pretty fascinating overall.
The RV looks to be in surprisingly good condition!
I'm not sure about the UK, but here it is fairly common for a property owner to park an RV on their property, often next to an older homestead. I've always assumed it was because the cost or time needed for its upkeep was too prohibitive for the owner, so they leave the original home to rot and set up mobile residence next to what was probably the home they grew up in.
But that's just a guess.

Posted by Bygone Era It looks like those RVs are dirty inside but it didn't look like there was any holes or broken windows. Did they smell bad, like water had gotten in, or were they just dirty due to whoever was last living in them last? Just curious.

No broken windows but it smelled of damp and animal shit in there, there was so much shit everywhere from rats or god knows what.